A success!!!
China declared the "San Francisco Running of the Torch" a success....
"During the torch relay there we have seen lots of patriotic overseas Chinese and local people who warmly welcomed the torch relay, which left many moving moments in our hearts," China's Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Jiang Yu said Thursday. "The torch will go ahead in spite of all the difficulties and spread the Olympic spirit and the concept of peace, friendship and progress. And this can not be stopped by any forces."
Yeah. And they changed the route, shortened it, and ended the measly affair at San Francisco International Airport where the flame was not displayed with any closing ceremony, merely hustled onto a plane and whoooosh! Gone!
So the Chinese ... CHEATED. They didn't follow the route, they didn't give people who had stood hours waiting for a chance to glimpse the flame any chance whatsoever, no warning, nada. And they didn't give the thousands of protesters a chance to snuff the frikkin thing in the Bay!! How is that sportsman-like? Huh?
"I think it was very strange that the torch seemed to be running away from the people, but it was a good day because attention was focused on some very important issues," said Jerry Fowler, president of the Save Darfur Coalition. BS, Jerry! You got ripped off.
"There were signs of tension even before the torch relay began. Pro-Tibet and pro-China groups had side-by-side permits to demonstrate, and representatives from both sides spilled from their sanctioned sites across a major street and shouted at each other nose to nose, with no visible police presence to separate them. The police knew that there would be no Torch coming along the Waterfront ... tip off number one!
"During the torch relay there we have seen lots of patriotic overseas Chinese and local people who warmly welcomed the torch relay, which left many moving moments in our hearts," China's Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Jiang Yu said Thursday. "The torch will go ahead in spite of all the difficulties and spread the Olympic spirit and the concept of peace, friendship and progress. And this can not be stopped by any forces."
Yeah. And they changed the route, shortened it, and ended the measly affair at San Francisco International Airport where the flame was not displayed with any closing ceremony, merely hustled onto a plane and whoooosh! Gone!
So the Chinese ... CHEATED. They didn't follow the route, they didn't give people who had stood hours waiting for a chance to glimpse the flame any chance whatsoever, no warning, nada. And they didn't give the thousands of protesters a chance to snuff the frikkin thing in the Bay!! How is that sportsman-like? Huh?
"I think it was very strange that the torch seemed to be running away from the people, but it was a good day because attention was focused on some very important issues," said Jerry Fowler, president of the Save Darfur Coalition. BS, Jerry! You got ripped off.
"There were signs of tension even before the torch relay began. Pro-Tibet and pro-China groups had side-by-side permits to demonstrate, and representatives from both sides spilled from their sanctioned sites across a major street and shouted at each other nose to nose, with no visible police presence to separate them. The police knew that there would be no Torch coming along the Waterfront ... tip off number one!
Farther along the planned route, about 200 Chinese college students mobbed a car carrying two people waving Tibetan flags in front of the city's Pier 39 tourist destination. The students, who arrived by bus from the University of California, Davis, banged drums and chanted "Go Olympics" in Chinese. And who do you suppose paid for those buses? Local, pro-Chinese rioters-in-training?
"I'm proud to be Chinese and I'm outraged because there are so many people who are so ignorant they don't know Tibet is part of China," Yi Che said. "It was and is and will forever be part of China."" (Washington Post). Sez who? I think Homeland should have another look at your Visa, buddy.
You just can't make this up. Ahhhh. The Chinese are going to have a wonderful Summer....
posted by Zaphod at Thursday, April 10, 2008
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